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Spring 2025 | Presenting Your Nominees

Get ready for the upcoming 2025 Canadian Screen Awards with this collection of nominated works! See the range of Canadian talent across film, television, and digital media and join us in celebrating our homegrown screen industry.

View the full list of the 2025 nominees on our website and make sure to check out the “Where to Watch” button on each nominee page to see where it is available to stream.

Then, tune into The 2025 Canadian Screen Awards, hosted by Lisa Gilroy, on Sunday, June 1 at 8:00 PM ET / 5:00 PM PT on CBC Gem. But that’s not all! The other award shows will be livestreamed on canadianscreenawards.ca.

For the full 2025 Canadian Screen Awards schedule, click here.

Content Warning:
Some of the projects included in this collection deal with topics that may be distressing. Viewer discretion is advised – please check ratings and warnings on individual selections before engaging.

Beyond Black Beauty

7 nominations including Best Children’s or Youth Fiction Program or Series

Beyond Black Beauty follows a young equestrian whose Olympic dream is dashed when she is uprooted and brought to an urban ranch in Baltimore, where she bonds with a spirited horse named Black Beauty.

Cry of Silence

Nominated for Best Lead Performer, TV Movie

In a small town plagued by a ruthless serial killer, a woman fights for liberation while unknowingly trapped by her captor. Confronting fear and deception, she defies his twisted obsession. Cry of Silence is a harrowing tale of resilience, survival, redemption, and the unraveling of a haunting dark secret.

Nuked

Nominated for Best Picture Editing, Documentary

NUKED looks at the legacy of nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, which began in the 1940s. The toll on health and the environment, and the whereabouts and well-being of the Bikini diaspora are all examined.

One More Time

9 nominations including Best Comedy Series, presented by Lionsgate Canada

One More Time is a half-hour workplace comedy series that follows DJ (D.J. Demers), the hard-of-hearing manager of a second-hand sporting goods store, and the team of misfit employees he leads.

Potluck Ladies

2 Nominations including Best Drama Series

Sumaira, Azra and Ruby live in The Wives Condos in Toronto with their children, while their husbands work in other countries. They first meet on a weekly basis for potluck lunches. They soon find out lives are not as perfect as it seems. They soon form friendships with bonds stronger than a family’s.

*Selected by Hollywood Suite

*Selected by Hollywood Suite

*Selected by Hollywood Suite

Pride: The LGBTQ+ History Series

2 nominations including Best Web Program or Series, Non-Fiction

This award-winning docuseries follows filmmaker Mark Kenneth Woods and friends as they travel to different pride celebrations around the globe to learn about LGBTQ+ history and how it can inform our communities going forward.

*Selected by Hollywood Suite.

Shepherds | Bergers

2 nominations including Adapted Screenplay | Meilleure adaptation

Mathyas trades in his Montreal life as a young advertising executive to become a shepherd in the South of France. But the harsh realities of the pastoral world force him to question his romantic vision of the profession. A visit from Elise, a civil servant who has abruptly quit her job, gives Mathyas’s quest a new direction. Together, with a herd in their care, they embark on a journey towards a new way of life in the mountains.

Society of Clothes | Les Gens Dans L’Armoire

Nominated for Best Animated Short | Meilleur court métrage d’animation

Korean animator Dahee Jeong crafts a surreal world where people exist solely as garments—bodiless, faceless, going through the motions of daily life. As a shirt and a pair of pants step out of the closet and assemble into a human-like figure, they join others in a city of fabric-bound beings, performing everyday tasks with eerie familiarity. Through delicate animation and a silent, poetic approach, the film questions identity, routine and the meaning of existence in a society where appearances are everything. Society of Clothes is a co-production with Miyu Productions and Between the Pictures.

These Triggas

2 nominations including Best Web Program or Series, Fiction

These Triggas is Canada’s answer to In Living Color. Irreverent, daring, and hilarious. This show will utilize the power, the insecurities, and the injustice of being Black in Canada to generate hilarity. Comedy BY Black Canadians, ABOUT being Black in Canada, FOR everyone in Canada.

Yintah

4 Nominations including Best Feature Length Documentary | Meilleur long métrage documentaire

Yintah – meaning “land” – is a feature-length documentary on the Wet’suwet’en fight for sovereignty. Spanning more than a decade, the film follows Howilhkat Freda Huson and Sleydo’ Molly Wickham as their nation reoccupies and protects their ancestral lands from several of the largest fossil fuel companies on earth.